Editing City Series:Volume7 Layer 4 (section)

===Record 33: I Don’t Understand===

'''09/29/1997

'''17:49

Our Mountain training was ending the day after tomorrow. After finishing my work for the day, I went to visit Snowy who had collapsed during the final match of our exam. I walked down the mountain path for a bit and found the autumn leaves were already colored by the sunset. Once I arrived in front of the medical building surrounded by red leaves, I saw Snowy speaking with a woman. Snowy wore a white monk’s robe and stood in front of the vending machine. The brown-haired woman wore a brown coat and sat on top of the vending machine.

Snowy turned around when I raised a hand and greeted her. She didn’t look happy and asked why I was here with her eyebrows. I held my head proudly high as I responded.

“I’m here to see how the loser is doing. So who’s she?”

“Hello. Friend of hers? I am the West Wind. This girl has helped me out a lot over the past few days.”

The woman brushed up her long brown hair and summoned the wind. The red, crimson, and yellow mountain rustled and shook. The fallen leaves looked so beautiful blowing in the wind. …Hey, wait. We’re the ones who have to clean all those up.

“This is pleasant time of year, but it gets tedious with the South Wind, East Wind, and North Wind gone.”

“I see,” I said while walking up next to the vending machine. The West Wind suddenly handed me 150 yen from atop the vending machine. “I’ve never been given money by the wind before. Buying me a drink?”

“Sorry, but no. I feel like some coffee, but I’m so light in early fall, you know?”

“She says she can sit on windowsills and roofs, but she can’t stand on the ground. Buy the drink and hand it to her.”

Would she gain enough weight to stand if she drank enough sugary coffee?

I won a second one, so I gave it to Snowy to help her recover.

'''Author Comment:

The West Wind is wandering around.

The winds are generally Wind Lives data entities, so they appear in human form to anyone who wants to see them or that can see that kind of thing. Maybe there’s a connection to how people interpret spirits.